You need to be using two-factor authentication (2FA) for your online accounts that matter. Right now. Do it. Please. In the past 2FA was a kind of geeky thing that only the most security-conscious would bother with. Today, it's essential that…
You should watch The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. It's free on YouTube and other places: It's a story about one person, but it's also a story about the evolution of the modern Internet, technology and civil…
As a part of trying to live a more paperless life, I'm determined to take notes electronically when I'm sitting at my computer, instead of jotting them down on scraps of paper and then putting them into a document later. When a…
I recently had this experience trying to make a charitable donation to a not-for-profit organization I want(ed) to support: I Googled their name to find their website. The "Donate Now" button was located prominently on the front page of the…
I enjoy reading about what other people carry around with them in their work bags, especially other people in tech who can do their thing "anywhere." Here's what I carry with me most of the time: Bag contents
One of the things I appreciate most about living near a small, excellent liberal arts college is that it brings amazing people with amazing talents into my community, even if for just a short while. Sometimes I only get to…
This week my coworkers introduced me to Games about Squares. I'm on level 23. Fair warning: if you click on through, you may be giving up several hours or more of your life.
We know that Hollywood and others are capable of creating video images that look real but aren't real. Still, we generally tend to accept video evidence of an occurrence as proof that it happened that way. But after watching this, I…
I had the pleasure of seeing actress, playwright and professor Anna Deavere Smith - known for roles on The West Wing and Nurse Jackie among other things - speak and perform today at Earlham College about the role of the artist…